This post might seem a little odd. I am inviting some of you to be less helpful. Really? Aren’t the best leaders helpful? Yes and there is a limit. I learned this recently…
Performance Improvement
I have been a fan of Mark Mortensen’s work for a few years. Mortensen is a professor at Insead and his work on teaming caught my attention. His recent article was on a…
Who is to blame? When things don’t turn out as expected, this is a common question. The failure must be because somebody didn’t perform as expected. In my Intel days I attended ‘after…
I’ve just decided to hire a coach. This may sound a bit odd coming from a coach, but coaches need coaches as much as anyone else. In my case, I am seeking to…
Giving advice has been getting a bad rap recently. Coaching has emerged as a preferred leadership style over advice giving. Following this logic, mentoring will also be a less preferred style of interacting….
One of the most valuable things I do with my clients is to help them recognize how we get in our own way. You might wonder why we do this. Why do we…
I had a climbing lesson the other day and my instructor pushed me to try a route that challenged my ability. It didn’t turn out well, my fear got the better of me….
I am usually thinking about how to get more done in less time, to become more efficient. This involves challenging how I spend my time and what I spend it on. After all,…
I rented a tool called a brush hog this week. It was the perfect tool to clear the chest high thorny blackberry bushes covering a plot of land we purchased. In fact, it…
Sometimes my clients see trouble ahead and yet they don’t take action. There can be a variety of reasons why this happens, but it is usually because we get hijacked by our emotions….